Metaphor: Implications and Applications: Implications and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780805816501 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 276 str.

Jeffery S. Mio; Albert N. Katz; Jeffery Scott Mio

Opis

Research in metaphor has been dominated by Aristotelian questions of processes in metaphor understanding. Although this areas is important, it leaves unasked Platonic questions of how structures of the mind affect such processes. Moreover, this book argues that there has been relatively little work on how metaphors affect human behaviour. This work is dedicated to an empirical examination of how metaphors affect human behaviour and understanding. It is divided into four sections including metaphor and pragmatics, clinical uses of metaphor, metaphor and politics, and other applications of metaphor. Chapters contained within these sections attempt to merge Aristotelian questions with Platonic ones.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Part I: Pragmatics of Metaphor. A.N. Katz, On Interpreting Statements as Metaphor or Irony: Contextual Heuristics and Cognitive Consequences. R.J. Kreuz, The Use of Verbal Irony: Cues and Constraints. V.F. Reyna, Meaning, Memory, and the Interpretation of Metaphors. Part II: Metaphors in Clinical Settings. L.M. McMullen, J.B. Conway, Conceptualizing the Figurative Expressions of Psychotherapy Clients. L.E. Angus, An Intensive Analysis of Metaphor Themes in Psychotherapy. A.M. Rose, Metaphors in Child Custody Mediation: Utilizing Symbolic Language to Facilitate Agreements. W.P. Banks, S.C. Thompson, The Mental Image of the Human Body: Implications of Physiological Mental Models for Our Understanding of Health and Illness. Part III: Metaphors and Politics. J.S. Mio, Metaphor, Politics, and Persuasion. W.S. Gramm, Economic Metaphors: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Theory. P.A. Chantrill, J.S. Mio, Metonymy in Political Discourse. S. Thompson, Politics Without Metaphors Is Like a Fish Without Water. Part IV: The Metaphors of Everyday Life. P. Whitney, D. Budd, J.S. Mio, Individual Differences in Metaphoric Facilitation of Comprehension. J.M. Kennedy, Metaphor in Tactile Pictures for the Blind: Using Metonymy to Evoke Classification. H.R. Pollio, Boundaries in Humor and Metaphor.

O autorze

Jeffery S. Mio, Albert N. Katz